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Webinar | Structural use of bamboo culms (P2) 17 Nov 2020
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Webinar | Structural use of bamboo culms (P2) 17 Nov 2020 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 19 Views • 5 years ago

Session 3: Structural use of bamboo culms (Part 2)

Speaker: Zhuo Xin, Associate Professor of College of Civil Engineering and Architecture at Zhejiang University

Topic: Innovative multi-culm bamboo spatial lattice structures

The innovative multi-culm bamboo spatial lattice structures are composed of bamboo culm triangle installation units which are connected in the way that all simple connectors are the same. The topological relationship of this structural system differs from that of the traditional spatial lattice structures. A free-form surface lattice structures can be assembled in the way of tangent direction parallel connection between adjoining installation units. The bearing capacity of the structures can be strengthened in the way of normal direction parallel connection between adjoining installation units. The feasibility of this structural system has been validated by engineering applications.

Speaker: Luis Felipe Lopez, Head of Technology at Base Bahay Foundation in the Philippines

Topic: Research in the Philippines

Base Bahay Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing disaster-resilient, sustainable socialised housing for low-income families and disaster victims using the Cement-Bamboo Frame Technology (CBFT). However, though the CBFT has been tried and tested in our various projects around the country, Base remains dedicated to constant research and innovation for the optimization of the technology.

This can be achieved through the Base Innovation Center where Base conducts research on bamboo construction technology, in collaboration with various international and local universities. Together with our partner institutions, the BIC aims to further bamboo technology and promote this for widespread use.

Speaker: David Trujillo, Chair of INBAR Construction Task Force, Assistant Professor at Coventry University

Topic: Making bamboo a mainstream structural material

Bamboo has been used as a construction material for thousands of years and currently hundreds of millions of people live in bamboo housing across the world, yet it is still perceived as non-conventional material. This is because most of bamboo constructions are vernacular. Over the last 20 years a significant effort has been made to transform it into another engineering material. This presentation identifies the state-of-the-art of bamboo engineering, including the significant progress made in the development of standards (and codes) and also identifies the path yet to cover.

Moderators:

Durai Jayaraman: Global Programme Director of INBAR

Sebastian Kaminski: Senior Structural Engineer of Arup
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Afrikan Development Studies 2012 - 11 - 27 LECTURE 4
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Afrikan Development Studies 2012 - 11 - 27 LECTURE 4 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 19 Views • 5 years ago

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 11 27 LECTURE 4

Topic:

Pre-Colonialism, Colonialism, Neo --Colonialism & the Roots of Afrikan Underdevelopment

• Slave Trade: Technological stagnation and distortion of the Afrikan Economy
• Emergence of the international division of labour [Imperialism/Globalization]
• Capitalist Integration and Exploitation of Afrika into Global Western controlled economy
• Imperialism and colonialism and its implications for Afrika
• Decolonization process, Neo-Colonialism in different regions: Role of the founding of UN in Neo-colonialism
• Regional Cooperation in Afrika: OAU/AU, ECOWAS, EAC, SADC, COMESA and their role in African Underdevelopment
• New structures of Neo-Colonialism/Imperialism: Development Aid, indebtedness, IMF, WTO ICC

Readings:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Chapter 3 -- Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development-The Pre-colonial Period

Chapter 4 -- Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment -- to 1885

Chapter 5 -- Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe-The Colonial Period

Chapter 6 -- Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa


Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.

Go Figure: Predicting the World with Math | 2014
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Go Figure: Predicting the World with Math | 2014 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 19 Views • 5 years ago

Every Google search, OKCupid date, and Netflix recommendation, and even the items and prices you see at the grocery store is uses massive amounts of data. Algorithms of increasing complexity make sense of this ever-expanding mountain of data, and are helping us achieve unprecedented insights into medicine and other fields, create even more powerful computers, and much more. Watch scientists James Fowler, Steven Strogatz, Andrew Lo, and Seth Lloyd crunch the numbers in "Go Figure: Predicting the World With Math," part of the Big Ideas series from the 2014 World Science Festival.

This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.

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Original Program date: June 1, 2014
Host: Ira Flatow
Participants: James Fowler, Steven Strogatz, Andrew W. Lo, Seth Lloyd

Predicting the World with Math introduction. 00:00

Ira Flatow's Introduction. 1:35

Participant Introductions. 2:42

How much data is there in the world? 4:35

What is big data and machine learning? 11:24

Will we need new tools to analyze all of this data? 14:00

Will we be able to track everything you do 24/7? 19:57

Are there ant natural algorithms that can predict our world? 26:36

Can we use FaceBook to make predictions of the world? 34:18

Does god play dice with the universe? 42:32

Asking better questions to get better data. 50:06

Can we predict when society will change it's mind? 59:05

How will quantum computing change the future? 1:05:17

Predicting how a disease will spread. 1:13:05

Why was the SARS epidemic stunted from predictions? 1:17:43

How do you all approach a problem from your different decisions. 1:21:23

Demographics and marketing in a social world. 1:27:26

NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness | 2014
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NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness | 2014 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 19 Views • 5 years ago

Why is there something rather than nothing? And what does ‘nothing’ really mean? More than a philosophical musing, understanding nothing may be the key to unlocking deep mysteries of the universe, from dark energy to why particles have mass. Journalist John Hockenberry hosts Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, esteemed cosmologist John Barrow, and leading physicists Paul Davies and George Ellis as they explore physics, philosophy and the nothing they share.

This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.

The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
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Original Program Date: June 12, 2009
MODERATOR: John Hockenberry
PARTICIPANTS: George Ellis, Frank Wilczek, John Barrow, Paul Davies

Introduction 00:00

John Barrow lecture on how nothing can be something. 03:52

Participant introductions. 28:57

Can the beginning be ranked a zero? 30:00

Empty space and virtual particles. 37:11

Does science want there to be nothing? 40:02

Zero may not be nothing. 49:16

What do you get when you test nothing? 58:48

How do you jump from there was nothing to now we can measure nothing? 01:05:01

What if there is evidence that time changes rate and direction. 01:08:30

Does consciousness change the testing of the observer? 01:12:10

What does string theory say about nothing? 01:17:40

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